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Topic Started: Dec 8 2015, 05:47 PM (6,962 Views)
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Dec 15 2015, 10:49 PM
Dumbest people I've met online (who I don't think were trolling) are probably libertarians and anarcho-capitalists. The kind who think that slavery is acceptable if you sign the right contract, or that private arbitration is an effective means of resolving disputes. To these people, greed is sacrosanct, even attempting to have decent intentions makes you evil and repressive, and our current way of doing things only sucks because we have too much government regulation.

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Dec 15 2015, 10:49 PM
Yeah, that was macgoblin.

The vehemence against it can be kind of irksome, though I agree about the bodily autonomy issue. I saw irksome because there's a tendency to treat it as irreparable mutilation that has profound physiological consequences, including the loss of normal sexual function (or at least that's what I've seen some people act like).

And, well, when you actually like your parents and are Jewish, that's a little bit annoying.

Dumbest people I've met online (who I don't think were trolling) are probably libertarians and anarcho-capitalists. The kind who think that slavery is acceptable if you sign the right contract, or that private arbitration is an effective means of resolving disputes. To these people, greed is sacrosanct, even attempting to have decent intentions makes you evil and repressive, and our current way of doing things only sucks because we have too much government regulation. Also global warming totally doesn't exist, or if it does it's not due to humans, or if it is we don't have to worry about it.

I tried debating with these people on a formal debate site for a year. Eventually I burned out from all the stupid.
My dumbest would also be libertarians and an-caps, I'd throw in some TERFs and Tankies as well from the Leftie side of things.

'Tankies' for those wondering, are socialists and communists who view the actions of Stalin or Mao and the like as justifiable, or don't believe they really committed them. These people do actually exist, and they're worth no less contempt than Neo-Nazis in my book.

TERFs are Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists.

If I was going to pull the debate pin out of the grenade, I'd say I view anarchism, in general, as a nonviable movement. Interesting theories, nice motivations, but as long as a centralised state can mobilize more resources and more people in much quicker time, it will always out-compete a decentralised one. There's a reason that governments and nation states predominate, and it's because they're more successful in the current climate. You may as well be anti-agrarianism for all the change it'll cause.

Now, in the future when most jobs are automated and 3D printing and corporate collusion in governments has severely weakened the economic basis of any nation? Anarchism or libertarianism might start looking like a more reasonable form of government than Techno-Despotism, and I'll probably be there calling for the change.

But at this immediate time? I don't think it's a viable or competitive model of political organisation.

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Not really, they aren't truly associated with leftist Anarchism, the same way that National Socialism isn't associated with Socialism.
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Most (non-ancap) anarchists I've talked to are against any form of hierarchy, and hierarchy is arguably an inherent trait of capitalism, so they tend to say that anarchocapitalists aren't real anarchists. And it's certainly true that they're radically different from ancestral strains of anarchist thought. To the best of my knowledge they aren't descended from them, either.

So personally I wouldn't refer to them as actual anarchists, since they're philosophically quite different from the people who first used the term, and aren't descended ideologically from them.

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Dec 16 2015, 04:44 AM
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Dec 15 2015, 10:49 PM
Dumbest people I've met online (who I don't think were trolling) are probably libertarians and anarcho-capitalists. The kind who think that slavery is acceptable if you sign the right contract, or that private arbitration is an effective means of resolving disputes. To these people, greed is sacrosanct, even attempting to have decent intentions makes you evil and repressive, and our current way of doing things only sucks because we have too much government regulation.

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They'd say the problem with Rapture was that there was too much government regulation.

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Dec 16 2015, 07:09 AM
Oh hey, Citra is back. That's neato.


Nice to see you too.
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I got a PM on reddit from a dude trying to get me to look at hentai. I figure that qualifies.
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Honestly, I became pro-circumsision the second I learned that fungus can grow on your foreskin.

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And speak of the devil, look what I bump into while cruising Tumblr.

http://nashscribblings.tumblr.com/post/135279954658/pterobat-riseofthecommonwoodpile
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"Permanent brain damage."

Look, some of us don't store our brains in our penises.

Dickheads.
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Dec 16 2015, 05:47 PM
"Permanent brain damage."

Look, some of us don't store our brains in our penises.

Dickheads.
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Dec 16 2015, 04:20 PM
Honestly, I became pro-circumsision the second I learned that fungus can grow on your foreskin.
I have a fungal infection on my tongue right now, and it's been there for years.

Fungus can grow anywhere on your body, it's just a matter of cleaning yourself properly.
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I've had a whole heap of strange online encounters. Here are just a few examples of some memorable ones:

Once I had a bunch of Christian fundamentalists screeching at me over a ridiculously long period for how I dared claim its bigoted to hate and dehumanise people for having a different religion or no religion. At least one of them randomly brought up some off-topic shit about how awful gays and non-white people supposedly were, maybe just to prove to me how totally not bigoted he was. Another said how Christianity was what had made "this country" great and if I didn't like it I should move to China (incidentally, I'm not sure what "this country" was. If it was America, it would be funny, as I've never even been there, and it would be just a tad hard to move out of a country I'm not even in).

Once I had dozens, if not hundreds, of messages per day, all repeats of an incoherent rant of some sort, spammed to my deviantART page (the spammer also did this to at least several other people on the site. Must have had a lot of time on his hands). The spammer got banned multiple times before eventually stopping.

Also, people who over-react to criticism of fictional concepts are a fun bunch [/sarcasm]. One of the stranger examples I've run across was one time when I told someone some fictional alien race of theirs needed more depth as they were just a "thug race" stereotype. I expected at least some counter-criticism of my critique, but I did not expect what actually happened- I was called a rather childish insult and also told, among other things, that cliched tropes like "thug races" were "necessary" in any sci-fi anywhere ever, that I was trying to force my own ideas onto others and all sorts of other nonsense.


So yeah, you find some strange folks on the internet.
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Dec 16 2015, 04:20 PM
Honestly, I became pro-circumsision the second I learned that fungus can grow on your foreskin.

Also, I've been blocked by some guy on Deviantart because I liked the Indominus Rex. Link is here: http://alexanderlovegrove.deviantart.com/art/The-Quilled-Slasher-539640733
You're aware that most people wash their foreskin right?
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Yeah, but I'm a big neat freak. The idea that there might be fungi growing on Mr. Winky seriously freaked me out. Also, most circumsised foreskins are used to grow new skin for skin transplants.

I know how you feel, Tartarus. Dylan Tyt has used some really funny (Read: head-bangingly awful) arguments against me.

Also, there was that time where someone said, and I quote, "I don't believe that whites and negroes are the same species." He then proceeded to call Nelson Mandela a murderer for some reason.

And also also, I was once sent a note on deviantArt by someone who wanted me to write a story about his two characters. Keep in mind that literally all I have on my account are a few profiles for monsters for a kaiju group I'm in. I promptly asked why the hell the person wanted me of all people to write it. The reply? "I don't know."

Man, humans do strange things when we get bored.
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I really couldn't care less over the fact that I don't have a foreskin.

Hell, I'm probably better off without one, but thinking of the process involved I probably wouldn't do it now, so it's for the better it's done to babies, not later in life.
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I don't think circumcision should be forced upon people, including young children who are simply made to have it happen, but I can understand why people across the world do it.

In response to the DA story, there are unfortunately loads of people like that on the site. I once read an argument about someone's depiction of god on the site. That was funny.
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